Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. House.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silent-lintel-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Forge Cottage, Bridge Road, Moreton
- OS grid reference
- TL 534 069
- Coordinates
- 51.74059, 0.22043
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is a house dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a red plain tile roof. The north wall is weatherboarded. The building has two storeys and features a double range plan with a central chimney stack. There are two window ranges with 19th-century casements. The central entrance has a boarded door flanked by fluted pilasters and is topped with a flat canopy supported by brackets. The original chimney stack is made of red brick.
Local climate
Forge Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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